The College News
Volume V. No. 18
BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1919
Price 5 Cents
Vachel Lindsay's Program Includes
"The Congo" and "Santa Fe Trail"
Will Read to Model School Children In
Afternoon from "Poem Gamei"
Vachel Lindsay will include in his
reading Friday evening in Taylor "The
Congo." "Santa F6 Trail." "Child Poems,"
and "Moon Poems." Mr. Lindsay chants
some of his poems and may possibly
bring along his little black boy to beat
the tom-tom while he recites "The
Congo." $
In the afternoon he will read to the
children at the Model School from his
"Poem Games," poems to be acted out by
children.
He will be entertained at dinner in
Pembroke by members of the Graduate
Club, and again at a reception in Rocke-
feller after the lecture.
Odds Give Water-Polo Exhibition
Visiting Athletic Director Compliment!
Teams
An inter-odd water-polo match, staged
last Monday in honor of Miss Homans,
head of the Physical Training School run
in connection with Wellesley College,
went to 1919 with a score of 4-2. Two
Juniors played on the Senior team, H.
Holmes '20 scoring three of the goals.
Exhibition diving preceded the game.
Miss Homans, under whom Miss Anna
Branson was trained, is making a tour
of schools and colleges, Inspecting the
physical training departments. Welles-
ley, although one of the largest of the
women's colleges, with 1600 students,
has no pool as yet, but is hoping to build
one soon. Exercise requirements there
differ from those at Bryn Mawr in that all
exercise missed on account of illness
must be made up. No exercise is re-
quired for Juniors and Seniors.
Complimenting Bryn Mawr upon its
water-polo players, Miss Homans de-
clared them "a splendid-looking lot of
swimmers."
D. CLARK SECY OF UNDERGRAD
Darthela Clark '20 was elected secre-
tary of the Undergraduate Association at
the meeting last Thursday. Miss Clark
succeeds Elizabeth Williams '20, who re-
signed for lack of merits.
WASHINGTON AND THE THREE
MUSQUETEERS CELEBRATE
Dance Given in Honor of Tenth Anniver-
sary of Gymnasium
A George Washington's Birthday dance
to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the
opening of the gymnasium was given in
the gymnasium Saturday night by the
Athletic Association.
The three musqueteers. Old Bill, Bert
and Alf, evidently finding the gymnasium
"the better 'ole." sang "Carrying On"
with much enthusiasm. George Washing-
ton, with the alternating personality of
H. Zinsser '20 and C. Stillwell '22. hon-
ored the party with bis august presence
and apparently saved enough cherries
from the proverbial tree to decorate the
Ice cream given freely by the Athletic
Association.
A scrub Varsity orchestra furnished the
music. No admission was charged.
DR. REA HAS SON
A son, Baldwin Lucke, Jr., was
born to Dr. Marion Rea, assistant
resident physician, in the Infirmary
on Monday evening. Dr. Lucke, Dr.
Rea's husband, is an army doctor at
Camp Zachary Taylor In Georgia.
Dr. M. J. Sands, of the Woman's
Medical College in Philadelphia, is
temporarily taking Dr. Rea's place.
ENGL18H ARCHBISHOP TO SPEAK
SPEAK IN SUNDAY CHAPEL
Was a Leader in Oxford Movement
The Venerable John Harold Greig, who
is archdeacon of Worcester Cathedral,
the oldest cathedral in England, will con-
duct chapel on Sunday. He has been rec-
tor of St. Paul's, Lorrlmore Square, and
at present Is rector at Hartlebury, where
he has been since 1911. In 1909 and
1915 he was Select Speaker at Cambridge.
Archbishop Grelg is in America on the
invitation of the bishops and clergymen
of the Episcopal Church. He will speak
in New York, Philadelphia, Boston and
Washington. He will remain here for
three or four weeks.
In 1916 he was in America for the Gen-
eral Conference of the Episcopal Church.
He is well known as an exponent of the
Oxford movement and as one of the lead-
ers of the present spiritual awakening
that is beginning In England.
He is a cousin by marriage of Marion
Frost '20.
TREASURED RELICS IN
TROPHY CLUB COLLECTION
Files of the "Lantern," "Tipyn o' Bob"
and the "Review," and of the News are
being placed on the second floor of Pem-
broke East, through the efforts of the
Trophy Club. Athletic pictures of all the
classes have been rehung there, and a
picture of the first class graduated from
Bryn Mawr. Lanterns and trophies have
been rearranged on the first floor.
A canvass of the Seniors for money to
put name-plates in their rooms will soon
be conducted. Fifty dollars given to the
Trophy Club by the alumnae will be used
to buy new cases and to frame the pic-
tures.
Some of the trophies which the club
possesses are: a string of buttons, one
from each member of the first class in
college; a copy of the first Sophomore
rules; and one of the first college lan-
terns which was made of silver and was
only two inches high.
BRYN MAWR DELEGATE8 TO
ATTEND EASTERN ATHLETIC
ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE
Two members of the Athletic Board
will be sent as delegates to the Eastern
Athletic Association Conference to be
held at Mt. Holyoke April 10 11th. The
delegates will be appointed by the board
and the appointment will be ratified by
the members of the association.
This conference was held for the first
time last year at Cornell. Bryn Mawr
was invited but was unable to attend. It
is the eastern division of the conferences
which have been organised In different
parts of the states.
CLASS PLAYS RE-ESTABLISHED�NO MORE VARSITY DRAMATICS
Senior Play This Spring Will be
Farquhar's "Beaux' Stratagem/'
Comedy of 18th Century
G. WOODBURY 8TAGE MANAGER
"The Beaux' Stratagem," by George
Farquhar, will be the Senior play, to be
given April 5th. Permission was given
by the Undergraduate Association at a
meeting last Thursday. President Thomas
has approved the play, provided all
Seniors taking part have their merits,
have passed their orals, and are not in
Varsity dramatics or the Glee Club per-
formance.
"The Beaux' Stratagem" has been
called "the earliest treatment of the di-
vorce problem." It is a roadside play of
the early 18th century, with scenes laid
in a wayside inn and an old country
house, in contrast to the drawing-room
settings of most plays of the time. Dr.
Chew has asserted In revising the play
for acting.
Committees for the play are: Chair-
man of the committee which selected the
play. E. Fuller; stage manager. G. Wood-
bury; assistant stage manager. E.
Fuller; business manager, L. Wood.
Casting�G. Woodbury, E. Fuller, S.
Taylor, A. Moore. M. Martin.
Scenery�G. Bailey, chairman: R.
Hickman, D. Chambers, G. Hearne, M.
Scott, B. Sorchan.
Properties�A. Landon, chairman; F.
Day, H. Reld, M. Rhoads, A. Warner.
Lighting�D. Peters, chairman; A.
Thorndike, E. Macdonald.
Costumes�E. Hurlock, chairman; E.
Fauvre, M. Kranz, W. Kaufman, A.
Moore. K. Tyler.
Freshman Show Saturday
Freshman Show, entitled "Halls of
Fame, or Trial by Fire," will be given
Saturday evening at eight o'clock In the
gymnasium.
Reserved seats for outsiders will be
seventy-five cents for the benefit of the
Freshman Service Corps fund. Admis-
sion for members of the college will be
fifty cents.
Tickets may be obtained from K.
Gardner '22, Merlon.
PROFESSOR SOARES TO LEAD
C. A. WEEK-END CONFERENCE
Professor Theodore Soares. of the I'ni
versity of Chicago, will lead the Christian
Association Conference to be held the
week-end of April 12th.
Professor Soares spoke at Bryn Mawr
twice last spring, lecturing Just before
faster on "Win the Next War Now" and
preaching later in chapel. He is the sec-
ond of the Seniors' three choices for a
speaker for baccalaureate
The subject of the conferem��� If -'ill
undecided. Suggestions will ��� welcomed
by E. Biddle. C. A. president
Signed Room Contracts Due March 24
All undergraduates expecting to return
to college next year must have room con-
tracts signed by their parents and -lib-
mit these contracts, with a room fee of
$15. to the Secretary and Registrar of
the College on or before Monday. March
24th. Contracts have been placed in the
hall libraries or may be obtained from
the wardens. Directions for filling them
out are posted on the hall bulletin boards.
Students who do not Intend to return
to college next year are requested to in-
form the Secretary and Registrar by
March I4th
Large Majority Vote to Return Next
Year to Old System of Class
Plays Without Varsity
ALTERNATIVE WAS ONE CLA88 PLAY
Class plays will be reestablished next
year, to the exclusion of Varsity dra-
matics, according to a vote of 133 to 9 In
an Undergraduate meeting last Thursday.
Each class will give, beside Freshman
and Banner show, a Sophomore play,
Junior Senior supper play, and Senior
play. Class plays have been given up for
the last two years as a war measure.
Varsity dramatics were introduced last
year as a substitute for May-day, and
continued this year by unanimous vote.
A scheme to work in both Varsity dra-
matics and class plays was suggested by
Elizabeth Fuller '19, chairman of the
Senior Play Committee. According to
this plan, only three class performances
would be allowed, Freshman Show, Ban-
ner Show, and a Senior play, probably
subject to restrictions about merits, orals,
and participation in Glee Club perform-
ance and Varsity dramatics. That the
play should be a revival of an old one.
was also stipulated.
That class plays afford more fun, and
that they are as well presented as last
year's Varsity play, were reasons given
for return to class plays. Mayday, It
was urged, would take the place of Var-
sity dramatics in drawing material from
the whole college. Another considera-
tion was that Seniors restricted In their
choice would always give up Varsity dra-
matics for their class play.
500 Undergraduates at National
Conference \ [ |fc�;
M. L. Thurman, B. M. Delegate. Tails of
Alma
Returning from Evanston yesterday M.
L Thurman described the National Stu-
dent Conference which she attended as
Bryn Mawr's representative last week-
end "as the first of its kind to be made
up entirely of undergraduate students
from all over the United States." About
five hundred students attended the con-
ference, representing almost every col-
lege in the country with the exception of
Vassar, Wellesley and Smith.
The keynote of the conference, accord-
ing to Miss Thurman, was the new world
and the Individual's responsibility and a
realization of the need for Christ as a
leader, Christ expressed In terms of hu-
manity.
Mrs. Robert E. Speer, president of the
Y. W. C. A. and mother of M. Speer '22,
presided.
Among the other speakers was Miss
Agnes Nestor, president of the Trade
Woman's League of Chicago, who spoke
on "Industrial Women and the War."
Miss Nestor has worked for ten years in
a factory and is in favor of special legis-
lation for women, and believes that it
will not interfere with them industrially.
Dr. Merrill, who recently preached here,
spoke on "Jesus Christ and the New
World," and Mrs. Eddy spoke on mis-
sions In a lecture entitled "Industrial
Women Around the World." Dr. Harry
Ward, who will preach here thla spring.
addressed the conference oc "Essential
Elements In a New World." Mlaa Thur-
man will tell about the conference In de-
tail Sunday In Vespers.